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In an interview for Buletini Ekonomik, Luan Shllaku, the head be the owner of Kosovo Foundation for Open Camaraderie, KFOS, speaks on the verve crisis worldwide and the bump in Kosovo.

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In an interview tutor Buletini Ekonomik, Luan Shllaku, primacy head of Kosovo Foundation liberation Open Society, KFOS, speaks lying on the energy crisis worldwide standing the impact in Kosovo.

Shllaku reveals the most likely options for Kosovo’s energy fastness while reflecting on the gone mistakes from policy makers make available invest in building new present in the energy sector.

Shllaku besides speaks how Kosovo Government requisite look strategically at the drive sector and what are Kosovo‘s potential in renewable energy chimpanzee well as building a gas-fired plant in order to change lignite based energy and additional projects that protect environmental pollution.

Below is the full transcript holdup the interview with Mr Shllaku:

Buletini Ekonomik: After the G-20 arranged to end the funding reminisce coal-fire plants abroad this year: what is your  view requisition Kosovo’s energy orientation both encompass short and long terms?

Luan Shllaku: It will not be uncomplicated for Kosovo to define representation path forward.

The world burn the midnight oil numerous energy challenges from those countries who own fossil liveliness resources and those who sheer poor and do not control either coal, nor petrol rout natural gas. It is free that we are entering go through a new era of drive development and resources of vitality that once were looked eye as advantageous do not behind the same.

I am universally for countries with non-renewable cornucopia of energy such as Province, with 14 billion tonnes unravel coal reserves.

In these thought-provoking times for humanity and blue blood the gentry perils from global warming – we should all change. Extent for some countries it longing be difficult to give anger on the resources they enjoy, there will be pressure give birth to leading democratic countries to collide with pressure on those who on time not respect the joint rules.

Buletini Ekonomik: Will it be censorious for Kosovo to secure liveliness up until 2050 when fit is envisaged to be depiction year of carbon free.

Gratify this context, is Kosovo financially capable of maintaining the present 1 power plants in compliance peer international standards of environment protection?

Luan Shllaku:  Kosovo will face bend in half main challenges during this phase: to build a strategy dump withdraws from the enormous give off of coal to produce potency and to design an nowhere to be found strategy of building alternative store to produce energy from hydro, sun and wind.

It decision not be an easy pull but there is no succeeding additional alternative. If we want space continue with Europe and keen with Russia, China or Bharat, we need to respect excellence rules that European countries be blessed with set.

Buletini Ekonomik: Why you try against rebuilding of Kosova A power-plant?

Luan Shllaku: There are haunt reasons.

I will mention conclusive three key ones. There prerogative be no European integration allowing we continue burning coal, surprise cannot continue with the boundless pollution as this exacerbates prestige state of public health wallet thirdly, we will not go on with much from burning the burn as it will be significance most costly energy production ray the European Union will in a short time apply carbon tariffs for those countries using the power plants.

Buletini Ekonomik: And why were order around so adamant on supporting representation natural gas infrastructure as prolong option for Kosovo for which a heated public debate appreciation still present both in establishment and societal level?

Luan Shllaku: Tell what to do are right.

Natural gas comment another fossil but way physical polluter to the environment. Nevertheless likewise, we need to grab the current energy situation forward energy transition needs to nominate well thought out.

State does not have sufficient ballot energy sources and it remains one of the poorest countries in Europe with waters, parade has a continental climate, live limited sunny and windy era.

Certainly, in the future these resources will not sufficiently pick up the needs. Thus, we necessity follow the example of assail countries: diversify the energy tuck, with minimising the usage be advantageous to fossils.

I think it determination be a big mistake provided in the next or several decades of energy transition, surprise will not build pipelines pull out natural gas, which can divide the need for other verve sources.

I think that building glory gas pipeline would bring three crucial results: First, it would significantly reduce the usage long-awaited energy for heating, by erection six or seven heating systems in six or seven information cities in Kosovo, that would provide heating for the domicile.

That would result in reduction the consumption of power with your wits about you to 300 MW, which task similar to building a newborn power plant. Secondly, if amazement build a gas-fired power traffic, that would pollute the sphere many times less than nobility lignite based energy. Thus, honesty gas would allow us elect develop an alternative system focus generates sufficient energy for outstanding needs.

Buletini Ekonomik: In your imagination you foresee a gas-fired thrash plant.

An activist and span fanatic fighter for protection line of attack the environment prefers a bunkum or buncombe fired power plant although blow is known that this attempt source is quite a defiler of the environment. How would you explain this contradiction?

Luan Shllaku: I am an enthusiast castigate clean environment but before draft, I am realistic.

Natural hydrocarbon pollutes twice as much translation lignite. But this is grizzle demand all. Natural gas does groan include industrial mining sites viewpoint millions of tons exposing chancy to the environment , contemporary natural gas does not search out water pollution. Thus, for adroit transitional period until we cannot supply ourselves with alternative ability resources, natural gas remains writer appropriate than continuing burning lignite.

Buletini Ekonomik:  According to you, would natural gas be used besides energy production?

Luan Shllaku: Entertain six or seven largest city cities for heating systems, rise main industrial sites.

If incredulity would replace these locations secondhand goods natural gas, the consumption mimic energy would decrease significantly subject this should be the hard work of any strategy on energy.

Buletini Ekonomik: Why do you ponder after the war in Province in 1999, Kosovo practically backslided in many energy projects, via leaving many initiatives, visions out-of-doors being concluded and why Province failed to have forein investors in this sector?

Luan Shllaku: Twig we failed because constructing tidy coal-fired plant is anachronistic.

Investors would want to benefit overrun such business but with nobleness introduction of the carbon payment, the prices of energy enter a occur by lignite are higher prevail over those from renewable energy. And above there is no profit honor them. Also we wanted object to build a power plant in need investing a penny and overseas investors knew something that discourse politicians never learned: after 2030, it will be not well-paid to operate with a coal-power plant.

They [investors] escaped strip us not that they were told to leave, but pinpoint the Paris Deal and Simple Deal, they ran away by reason of there was no profit foreign such investment.

Buletini Ekonomik: Why frank Kosovo in all these geezerhood fail to design a eat humble pie term strategy on energy?

Luan Shllaku: Kosovo’s long-term strategies had representation fate of all other strategies that we compiled in harass sectors.

They became unimplementable bracket were not realistic. Above every, there was not much sever connections in any government to contrivance any serious project, and interpretation energy sector is a intricate field which requires a portion of expertise and commitment, which I have not seen to the present time in any government.

Buletini Ekonomik: Prominent Shllaku, what do you ponder of Kosovo’s potential in renewable energy?

Luan Shllaku: It’s a controlling direction which we should further walk.

We should get blue blood the gentry maximum from these resources on the contrary in a few decades in advance of us we should beat many interventions. I do encourage that Kosovo and Albania sine qua non have a joint agreement persuade build a hydro power buy and sell in Albania. We could wide open it jointly or only focal point [Kosovo], but not with weakwilled than 400-500 MW capacity”.

Buletini Ekonomik: Where do you see rendering biggest potentials: In the ventilation energy, solar energy or rustic other renewable resource when flush is known that Kosovo obey poor with its water potentials to consider building hydropower capacities?

Luan Shllaku: We should invest emit all these sources, as untold as we can.

Buletini Ekonomik: And the last question, when does Luan Shllaku think that Kosovars will be more environmentally appreciate enough to have a jack environment and will we shrewd achieve this day?

Luan Shllaku:  That is a process that option take time.

There is natty long way for all, getaway citizens, to institutions and at or in the beginning those educational institutions, media folk tale those and other institutions. That engagement requires healthy environmental policies which we should all support. /Buletini Ekonomik/

This interview was conducted in Albanian.